Australian projects recognized at Chicago Athenaeum’s International Architecture Awards

The winners have been announced for the 2019 International Architecture Awards, organized by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.

Maitland Riverlink by Chrofi (NSW), award winner in the Civic And Community Centers category.

A host of Australian projects have been named winners in the 14th edition of the International Architecture Awards.

Organized by the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design together with the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, the annual, global awards are regarded as some of the worlds most significant accolades.

The fifteen successful Australian projects were among more than 120 winners drawn from 41 countries. Australia’s showing at the awards was equalled only by the United States, where there were also fifteen winners.

Among the most successful firms were Chrofi, awarded for Maitland Riverlink and Lune De Sang Pavilion; FJMT, awarded for Bunjil Place and Grand Central Shopping Centre, Toowoomba (with Buchan); and Tzannes, awarded for Day Street Apartments and Dangrove.

Landscape architecture firm Aspect Studios was involved with three winning projects, while Terroir won two awards.

“These 120 plus buildings are what the best, new architecture looks like today,” said Christian Narkiewicz-Laine, museum president at the Chicago Athenaeum.

The projects were selected by a jury based at the Vilnius Gediminas Technical University in Vilnius, Lithuania – they will be officially celebrated at The City and the World exhibition in Athens, Greece with a reception and gala dinner in front of the Acropolis scheduled for 13 September.